> So I've been put in charge of setting up and > maintaining our department's new dispatch/switchboard > computer. In trying to keep it clean and in order, I > was hoping, if possible, to be able to give users > read/write access to information in files themselves, > but to block them from renaming the files or moving > them. > > I tried giving r-x access to a folder and rwx access > to the file inside. This lets them open the file and > prohibits them from moving/renaming it, but prohibits > them from saving any changes (because they can't write > to the folder).
That sure isn't the way I understand it. I'll check when I get a chance whether that's the effect on Mac OS X. Are you trying to use the GUI File Info interface from Finder, instead of chmod/chown, perhaps? I've found it handy to set up "dummy" users and "empty" groups. Some careful thought will often yield the functionality you need. For instance, the first thing I might try (if I understand your question correctly) is to set up an empty group called "deptA" with netinfo, dummy user called "deptA", complete with a file heirarchy under /Users, BTW, /etc/groups is ignored after Mac OS X goes multi. You'll need to add users to groups other than their primary group through the Netinfo Manager utility. (GUI access in the utilities folder.) -- Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ---------------------- "When software is patentable, anything is patentable." (http://swpat.ffii.org)
